Random Manics thoughts...

[Bambi]

Hey kids, does anyone remember Nicky referring to their 1999 double BRIT Awards win in retrospect as "a pretty hollow night" and where the quote appears? I have it as loose change rattling around my memory bank. Cheers!

[LA ex]

Twenty five years since Tolerate was released.

HOW THE FACK HAS THAT HAPPENED?

[Son of Stopped]

Originally Posted by Bambi

Hey kids, does anyone remember Nicky referring to their 1999 double BRIT Awards win in retrospect as "a pretty hollow night" and where the quote appears? I have it as loose change rattling around my memory bank. Cheers!

http://www.foreverdelayed.org.uk/msp...ne,_March_2001

Googled it. "Did you mean 'Nicky Wire a pretty hollow Knight'?" No... There we go. Exact result. Hate being second guessed by Google.

Originally Posted by LA ex

Twenty five years since Tolerate was released.

HOW THE FACK HAS THAT HAPPENED?

I try not to think about it. Only the whistling in my ears openly mocks

[Son of Stopped]

Originally Posted by Son of Stopped

http://www.foreverdelayed.org.uk/msp...ne,_March_2001

That interview is hilarious from the hindsight of now. And also shows what we're missing since Q folded. The little human details. Talking about cars. Now interviews are purely about the music music nothing else. With the occasional glance at the world.
(My round in the elimination game is coming but we can have both)

[UEF]

re Glasto 1999

"Not one our greatest gigs," Bradfield concedes. "I remember watching it back during You're Tender And You're Tired, Nick was, Oh God, you're acting singing. And I was! I thought, Oh my God this is horrible. It looked like we knew everything backwards and there wasn't even the possibility of the art of falling apart."

Is video of that available anywhere?

[LA ex]

Originally Posted by UEF

re Glasto 1999



Is video of that available anywhere?

I can't find You're Tender and You're Tired (was it broadcast on the BBC?) but here's the final half dozen or so songs. I can kind of see what Nicky is getting at, especially in the slower songs. From memory there was a bit of criticism that they were a bit over rehearsed and conservative in the song selection around that time, although I think that's true of many bands as they establish themselves as arena sized festival headliners.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-qhGWaxAh8

[Bartek Wyre]

Can't blame them for trying to be PRO.

[Son of Stopped]

Originally Posted by Nobody

Radio 2 are doing Kylie top 50 singles vote thing.

Some Kind of Bliss is included in the list.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/art...ate-kylie-song

We made it to 32! I couldn't tell you what the songs below or directly above it sound like
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/20...ng-bbc-radio-2

[Son of Stopped]

And happy 29th The Holy Bible! It was 1995 for me. But yeah.
Happy anniversary!

[counterlanguage]

Along the same lines.. just over 30 years now since I bought my first Manics record. From Despair To Where on 12" at a record fair just before I left University. Really surprised my mates as I'd been massively into techno and stuff like that til then. The start of some big changes in musical tastes.

But yes, 30 years....I feel really old now.

[Bambi]

Originally Posted by Son of Stopped

http://www.foreverdelayed.org.uk/msp...ne,_March_2001

Thanks for this! I think I might even have that 2001 Q magazine somewhere too.

[The Gutless Wonder]

Happy 25th Anniversary This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours!

[LA ex]

Can't believe nobody realised that yesterday was the 25th anniversary of "Bobby Gould Must Go"!

(Bizarrely my mum met Bobby about a decade ago and said he was a lovely bloke).

[Son of Stopped]

Happy Birthday Break My Heart Slowly!
The voice has come on since then

[LA ex]

Yesterday was the quarter century anniversary of my first proper Manics gig (I'd seen them previously supporting Oasis, but that's not really the same.

Still ranks as one of my favourite gigs (Manics or otherwise).

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/manic...-2bd7504a.html